Source: NBC News
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Scientists say Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano island, which erupted and collapsed a week ago triggering a deadly tsunami, is now only about a quarter of its pre-eruption size.
Anak Krakatau now has a volume of 1.4 billion-2.4 billion cubic feet and lost 5.2 billion-6.
3 billion cubic feet of volume since the Dec. 22 eruption and tsunami, according to Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.The analysis shows the scale of the island’s collapse, shedding light on the power of the tsunami that crashed into more than 186 miles of coastline in Sumatra and Java. More…
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